Just to bring things back to where (I think) we started. I think people are
talking about three separate things here:

 * URIs for bibliographic works (which, as Karen pointed out, are missing
some crucial bits of info like page numbers)
 * Actual text representations of a citation in a variety of
thick-book-specified formats (e.g., ALA, MLA)
 * The cites/cited-by graph for everything everywhere.

I understood the original post to be about the latter. E.g., if every book,
chapter, section, and article actually had a DOI, then we could build a
doi[1] references doi[2] graph and be done with it. Since everything doesn't
have a DOI, the question is in two parts: (a) how do we algorithmically
generate unique URIs in a way that guarantees preservation of the identity
relationship, and (b) how do we actually generate/store/query the resulting
graph.

Jodi, is any of this correct?



On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 5:33 PM, Young,Jeff (OR) <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Stuart,
>
> Sorry, I didn't mean to discount citation representations along other
> content-negotiable dimensions. It seems likely that BCP-47 <
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5646> will eventually be upgraded to
> recognize signwriting. If so, my URI pattern suggestion could be extended to
> support language, script, etc. like so:
>
> http://example.org/manifestation/1/citation-apa.{bcp-47}.txt
>
> In FRBR, serials are recognized as a distinct class so I assume this URI
> pattern could be applied to suit all:
>
> http://example.org/serial/2/citation-apa.{bcp-47}.txt (text/plain)
>
> Jeff
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
> > stuart yeates
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2010 4:14 PM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] "universal citation index"
> >
> > Young,Jeff (OR) wrote:
> > > http://example.org/manifestation/1/citation-apa.txt (text/plain)
> >
> > The problem I have with the use of (text/plain) is that too many
> > platforms still assume / default to latin1 for text/plain. While this
> > appears to be reducing, with signwriting still coming through the
> > standards pipeline we're not out of the woods yet.
> >
> > And yes, there are serials in signwriting.
> >
> > cheers
> > stuart
> > --
> > Stuart Yeates
> > http://www.nzetc.org/       New Zealand Electronic Text Centre
> > http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/     Institutional Repository
>



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